Inkstand.



F. A. WEEKS.

INKSTAND.

APPLICATION FILED DBO. 22, 1909.

1,068,630. Patented June 3, 1913.

FRANK A. WEEKS, 0F PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

INKSTAND.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1913.

Application filed December 22, 1909. Serial No. 534,423.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. WEEKS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Plainfleld, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Inkstands, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in inkstands, and its object is to provide a highly desirable and convenient inkstand comprising a novel base containing an inkwell and a novel cover applied thereon and slidable rearwardly to expose the well to receive a pen or frontwardly to conceal said well, said base being preferably of glass and said cover preferably of a compressed composition material.

The invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed and will be understood from the description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in Which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an inkstand embodying my invention, the cover being shown as slid rearwardly to expose the well to receive a pen; Fig. 2 is a central ver tical longitudinal section of the same; Fig. 3 is a top view, on a reduced scale, of the base of the inkstand, and Fig. 4. is a detached bottom view of the cover.

In the drawings, 5 designates the glass base of the stand and 6 the cover therefor.

The base 5 is formed with an ordinary ink-well 7 having, however, at its upper front edge an encompassing upwardly extending flange S and at its sides the parallel flanges 9 alining with the ends of the flange 8. The base 5 is preferably formed with the front pen-rack 10 adapted to receive several pens and being in its middle port-ions, as at 11, of receptacle outline or scoop-shape to receive, when desired loose pens, pins, paper-clips or the like. The base 5 is in one integral piece of glass or other suitable material and is, preferably, at its lower side of skeleton or hollow formation, as shown, to save both material and unnecessary weight.

The cover 6 consists of-a flat plate having a downwardly extending rear flange 12 and downwardly extending side flanges 13, which rest on the base 5 and embrace the flanges 9 on said base, the front end of said cover belng without a flange and concaved, as at 14:, toeffect an adequate exposure of the well 7 when the cover is slid or pushed rearwardly, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The cover 6 is formed on its lower side with a downwardly projecting integral pin 15, which when the cover 6 is pushed or slid rearwardly meets the rear wall of the well 7 and arrests said cover, said pin acting as a stop to prevent the cover from being pushed rearwardly from off the base. IV hen the cover 6 is moved frontwardly to cover the well 7, the rear flange 12 of the cover meets the rear ends of the side flanges 9 and said cover becomes arrested thereby, and at this time the front portion of the top of the cover 6 is over the flange 8. The cover 6 at the lower edges of its flanges 12, 13, rests on the base 5, and the flanges 9 on the base are close to the inner walls of the flanges 13 and serve as guides for the cover and also as means to prevent lateral movement of the cover. The rear ends of the guides 9 serve as stops to prevent the cover from being moved frontwardly to an undue extent, and, as hereinbefore explained, the pin 15 on the cover acts as a stop to prevent the cover from being unduly moved rearwardly.

When the cover 6 is moved to its rear position, shown in Figs. 1 and 2, it exposes the well 7 and when said cover is moved frontwardly it and the front flange 8 on the base, conceals said well. The cover 6 may be lifted from the base whenever desired but in. the ordinary use of the inkstand said cover will simply be moved rearwardly or front wardly as the occasion may require.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. A two-part inkstand comprising an integral base having an ink-well therein and a raised flange at the front of said well and guides at the sides thereof, and a slidable cover freely mounted on said base and capable of being lifted directly therefrom and having depending side flanges embracing said guides; substantially as set forth.

2. A two-part inkstand comprising a base having an ink-well therein and a raised. flange at the front of said well and guides at the sides thereof, and a slidable cover freely mounted on said base and having a depending rear flange, depending side flanges embracing said guides and a stop-pin on its of New York, and State of New York, this lower side to arrest the cover when the same 20th day of December A. D. 1909. is moved rearwardly to a proper extent, said v, T guides serving to arrest said cover when the h RAB K EEIXS' same is moved frontwardly; substantially as Vitnesses: set forth. ARTHUR MARION, Signed at New York city, in the county CHAS. C. GILL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patentl.

Washington, D. G. 

